Industrial gold mining operates increasingly through technologies high above the land mined, such as satellite imaging, automated machinery, and the airplanes that transport workers to and frommine sites, or the gold itself This contour map shows the area of Toronto/Tkaronto, Ontario, territory of the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation Barrick Gold is headquarted in the city’s financial district Until 2019, Barrick was the world’s largest mining company Barrick Gold owns at least five aircraft: three Gulfstream luxury jets, one Beech-craft 1900 jet, and one DHC-6 Twin Otter 400 jet in this contour map of Toronto, the circle in blue represents an area of roughly four square kilometres Barrick’s flights in 2019 have produced enough carbon emissions to melt four square kilometres of Arctic sea ice Elko Nevada This flight frequently transports workers to and from the Barrick Goldstrike mine Palm Beach, Florida Weekly flights on company jet (Barrick executive owns one of several homes in Palm Beach) Farnborough Airport, UK This airport caters to Greater London (Barrick executive has one of several homes in London) the company’s flights have emitted over 1,200 metric tons of CO2 in 2019 the pattern of commuting to work by plane is prevalent in the mining industry from mine workers to executives, the model of the fly-in/fly-out operation (FIFO) reflects economic necessity, social status, and a particular way of life however, the FIFO model is ill-suited for cultivating reciprocal relations with the communities and land on which mining wealth is built Barrick Gold has been accused of human rights violations and the company has faced feirce opposition from community groups and land defenders across continents what do the skies reveal about patterns of extraction that cut deep into the land and across communities? Frequent flight route of Barrick-Gold-owned plane Barrick-Gold-owned gold or silver mine